Tiny Quotes
1388 quotes by 1044 authors
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I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died…
— Stephen King
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Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.
— Glenn Beck
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
— Janet Fitch
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I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.
— Anita Shreve
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There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears…
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is…
— Yann Martel
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GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE…
— Dave Eggers
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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched…
— Miranda July
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you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the…
— Charles Bukowski
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After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and…
— Tad Williams
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The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,…
— Ray Bradbury
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What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but…
— Haruki Murakami
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If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in…
— Dean Koontz
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